Friday, April 25, 2014

A mystery solved. The illustrations of the Bermuda Supreme Court below were not identified with any hearing details, only the lawyer names. Quite by happenstance, the World Trade Art Gallery ( where the courtroom art show is on display) owner knew a lawyer who was able to track down the information based on just some key details. Story in the link above
and artwork below. All artwork was drawn for NBC Nightly News in 1986.

Attorney General Froomkin standing and Queens Council Smedley seated

Attorney General Saul Froomkin standing at lecturn by Elizabeth Williams

From the Thirteen WNET website: Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks to Judy Woodruff
about his new book, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the
Constitution.” In his book, the 94-year-old liberal justice calls for
major changes to the Constitution on issues such as the death penalty,
firearms, redistricting and campaign finance.

Friday, April 18, 2014

In concert with the launch of the the book
THE ILLUSTRATED COURTROOM:50 YEARS OF COURT ART
below is a video about Elizabeth Williams , co-author of the book.
The video was created by Jamie Roth Becker who reported on many courtroom stories
including Bernard Madoff.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Charles Keating was a major player in the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980's and early 90's. Keating was a banker who ran American Continental/Lincoln Savings and Loan which went bankrupt. Many investors lost their life savings. His involvement with 5 US Senators, dubbed the Keating Five ignited a huge scandal.

Joseph W. Cotchett who represented the bondholders had represented years
earlier the Los Angles Ram football team and owner Georgia Frontiere
during the lawsuit of Al Davis and the Raiders vs the NFL. Both the Raiders and the Rams wanted to move their teams. Al Davis won his lawsuit, moved his team to LA, but finally moved the Raiders are back to Oakland, after he could never get a new football stadium built, in the LA area. Los Angeles no longer has a football team.